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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704246 ; 704246 ; 704275 ;
Abstract
The speaker recognition methods and systems of the current invention involves at least two processing units for performing the speaker recognition based upon his or her voice input. To perform the speaker recognition efficiently as well as securely, the voice input is initially processed at the input site so that intermediate voice characteristic information is extracted. The intermediate voice characteristic information is transmitted to a second location for the final determination for identifying or verifying a speaker.